I'M ERIN CLARK WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH A STORY NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING. WE FIRST TOLD YOU LAST NIGHT ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF A CENTRAL COAST WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN MISSING SINCE HIS PLANE WENT DOWN ON A MISSION IN 1944. HIS NAME: ARMY AIR CORP SECOND LIEUTENANT VALORIE POLLARD OF MONTEREY. THIS SUMMER HIS REMAINS WERE FOUND, NOW THEY'RE BEING RETURNED TO THE U-S... AND TONIGHT WE SPEAK WITH THE DAUGHTER HE NEVER MET ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE HER FATHER BROUGHT HOME. HERE'S ACTION NEWS REPORTER AMANDA LEWIS WITH TONIGHT'S TOP STORY. Sandy Pollard's life was turned upside down a few weeks ago when the phone rang. 11:05 I wasn't prepared for it. Nothing can prepare you for it. The Department of Defense told her they'd found her father's remains. 24-year old 2nd Lt. Valorie Pollard went to war in 1943.. And went missing in action in March of 1944. Sandy was born about 3 months later. The two never met. 13:10 I can't describe the feelings.. Kind of like when you fall and knock the wind out of yourself. Pollard was a pilot in a plane like this one. He had just completed a bombing mission over New Guniea - where the Japanese had taken hold. He was flying through the mountains when the weather turned on him. 5:02 It happened so fast he probably didn't even know he hit the mountain. His wreckage has been in the jungle all these years.. The terrain there is difficult to travel in. 5:23 The archeologists had to go in by zipline dropped in my helicopter. They were able to recover pieces of flight suit, a pair of glasses, a knife sheath and a thermos - which Sandy now has. It's a small piece of her dad. Her mother didn't talk much about him. But she knew he carried her mother's picture with him during the war. Her mother died in 2003. 12:00 My mothers friend have told me she always thought he would come back. And my sister says he was probably the love of her life. In Stuart, Iowa, Amanda Lewis. KSBW Action News 8. ##### NONE OF VALORI POLLARD'S FAMILY STILL LIVES HERE ON THE CENTRAL COAST, BUT HIS REMAINS WERE IDENTIFIED BY MATCHING D-N-A WITH COUSINS NOW LIVING IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA. AFTER HIS DEATH, HIS WIFE RETURNED TO HER HOMETOWN NEAR DES MOINES IOWA. POLLARD'S REMAINS WILL BE BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY ON THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK. HE ALSO HAS A TOMBSTONE WITH HIS NAME AT THE MANILA AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL IN THE PHILLIPINES. #####